The Boston Book Fair returns for its 45th edition at Hynes Convention Center starting October 27th and we can't wait to see some of you in person at booth #220. But for those of you who can’t attend, we’ve put together a list of the inventory we will be exhibiting.
London: John Murray, 1821. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed to Miss Harriet Broom, "presented by the Contributors" Presentation Copy. "A weekly newspaper established by Parry’s crew in 1819-20, 'to enliven the tedious and inactive months of winter' in the Arctic region. It is an amusing collection of poems, songs, humorous..... Read More about The North Georgia Gazette, and Winter Chronicle
Price: $3,000
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First trade edition, with publisher's Fourth Avenue address on front flap, five line colophon in italics at end. One of the Best-Loved Children's Books in Any Language, Ever. The English language version of the beloved parable written and illustrated by French aviator Antoine de..... Read More about The Little Prince … Translated from the French by Katherine Woods
Price: $5,500
Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers, 1942. First edition, first issue. Salinger's first Book Publication, RARE IN MAILER. Salinger’s contribution, the short story “The Hang of It,” marked his first appearance in a book. He had written it to appeal to a wide audience with a new appetite for army stories. The..... Read More about The Kit Book for Soldiers, Sailors and Marines
Price: $3,000
Windsor, VT: 1985. Where, when, and what time of day or night were you born…? J. D. Salinger first met poet Celia Bland when she was an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College with a friend who lived near Salinger in New Hampshire. “Where, when, and what time of day or..... Read More about Two typed letters, signed "xx JDS" and "JDS", to poet Celia Bland, 17 May and...
Price: $25,000
New York: The Peace Eye Bookshop, [1965]. First edition. In rare condition. Poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg founded the legendary underground rock band, The Fugs, in 1964. The FBI, in their file on the noise-rock band, called them "most vulgar thing the human mind could possibly conceive". Sanders founded..... Read More about The Fugs' Songbook
Price: $850
![Item #366508 The Heart of the Antarctic ... [With:] The Antarctic Book. E. H. Shackleton](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/366508.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1697827745)
London: Ballantyne & Co. Limited for William Heinemann, 1909. First edition. Deluxe issue, number 198 of 300 numbered sets. Presentation copy inscribed by Shackleton to Sandor von Hegedüs. The Antarctic Book is signed by each member of the shore party. The Deluxe ‘Heart of the Antarctic’, Signed by All &..... Read More about The Heart of the Antarctic ... [With:] The Antarctic Book
Price: $40,000
Greenfield, Mass: Ansel Phelps, 1825. First American edition, reprinted from a London edition. The first furniture finisher's manual published in America, with recipes and lists of requisite tools and implements. Robert D. Mussey, in his introduction to the 1987 reprint of the 1827 American edition, points out that this work..... Read More about The Cabinet-Maker's Guide: or Rules and Instructions in the art of varnishing, dying, staining,...
Price: $4,750
New York: William A. Davis, No. 26, Moore Street, for the Author, 1797. First Edition. The author was a captain of artillery during the American Revolution under Gen. John Lamb, who provides herein a recommendation for the book. William Rollinson, a line and stipple engraver in New York, executed the..... Read More about A System for the Discipline of the Artillery of the United States of America, or, the Young...
Price: $2,750
Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. First edition, first issue. With Rev. Henson's Autograph and Stowe A.L.s. tipped in. “In the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century America Uncle Tom's Cabin exploded like a bombshell. To those engaged in fighting slavery it appeared as an indictment of all the evils inherent..... Read More about Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly
Price: $15,000
Boston: John P. Jewett, 1852. First Edition, First Issue (with Hobart & Robbins on the copyright page), bound in Blanck's “extra gilt” C binding. In the Publisher’s Deluxe ‘Extra-Gilt’ Binding. “In the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-ninteenth-century America Uncle Tom's Cabin exploded like a bombshell. To those engaged in fighting slavery..... Read More about Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly
Price: $15,000
c. 1870. Women Writers. Photos of prominent American woman writers. Very similar, and in come cases, the exact images were used for the well-known photo-collaged lithograph by Eugene L'Africain "Eminent Women" (1884), depicting authors, and a companion piece to his "Author's Group" (1883), which depicted famous Massachussetts authors. Included are..... Read More about Collection of photos of American Women Writers, including Louisa May Alcott, Helen Hunt Jackson,...
Price: $3,000
New York: New Directions, [1946]. First edition, second issue with redesigned title page and later New Directions address, "333 Sixth Ave." on copyright page. With a Note from Dylan Thomas. A.N.s. of Dylan Thomas, a presentation to Carol Louise Zeman dated September 1st, 1950, laid in. The note is on..... Read More about Selected Writings of Dylan Thomas. Introduction by John L. Sweeney
Price: $5,000
London [printed in the United States]: Picador, 1983. Steadman, Ralph. First UK edition, first printing. Inscribed by Ralph Steadman. Inscribed from Steadman to Rolling Stone Magazine staffer, Paul Rothkopf, July 2, 1988. Read More about The Curse of Lono
Price: $1,250
Louisville: Feb 11, 1955. Earliest recorded Thompson letter: ‘I was the “black sheep” of the Athenaeum’. A candid letter from Hunter Thompson in February 1955, written to his friend Paul Semonin, when Thompson was seventeen years old. Semonin and Thompson were both members of the Athenaeum Literary Association, although, as..... Read More about Autograph letter, signed "Hunter S Thompson", to his friend Paul Semonin, with...
Price: $17,500
Dec 1 [1963]. Thompson to his friend on the JFK Assassination: 'It is a terrible thing to have Kennedy killed and still not know exactly who did it, or why. The whole thing has been a goddamn nightmare.'. Thompson begins the letter, "Dear Punk," and spends the majority of it..... Read More about Typed letter, signed, "HST" to his friend Paul Semonin, with pencil annotations
Price: $15,000
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872. First edition. Essential Account by an Influential Participant. Still’s monumental work, approaching 800 pages, documented the efforts and frequent successes of fugitive slaves to seek freedom as they made their way north along the Underground Railroad. “Still worked diligently in the preparation of his book..... Read More about The Underground Rail Road. A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c, Narrating...
Price: $7,500
New York: Francis Childs and John Swaine, [1789]. First edition, one of 700 copies. First Session of the House, with a Preliminary Printing of the Bill of Rights. This rare original printing of the Journal for the first session of the House of Representatives covers the activities of the House..... Read More about Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
Price: $45,000
New Orleans, Tuscon: Loujon Press, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1969. First editions. An excellent set of The Outsider, an important literary magazine founded in New Orleans, and distinguished by elaborate graphic design and a broad reach: "Jon and Lou’s magazine was attractive to poets and authors for its high quality –..... Read More about The Outsider 1-5 (Complete Run
Price: $1,250
London: Felix Kingston, 1622. Expanded second edition. A foundation tract of British settlement in North America by "the father of Newfoundland". This is the second edition, enlarged with "A Loving Invitation" (also printed separately) as well as 15 pages of letters in the rear which give the earliest and only..... Read More about A Discourse and Discovery of New-Found-Land, with many reasons to procue how worthy and...
Price: $35,000
Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860-61. Third edition, first printing, first issue; 1000 copies printed. The Boston ‘Leaves of Grass’, with the Calamus Poems. The first printing of the third edition, the first Boston edition, and the first edition to be issued by a publisher, following the first two self-published editions..... Read More about Leaves of Grass
Price: $5,000
[Boston]: July 1, 1853. Among the Earliest Petitions for Women's Suffrage Before a Legislative Body. Just five years after the Seneca Falls Convention, Lucy Stone and a group of Massachusetts women, petitioned the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention to remove the word "male" from the state's constitution and petitioned for women to..... Read More about Convention .... No. 97. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In Convention, July 1, 1853. The Committee...
Price: $17,500
Munich: Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bavaria, 1946. A revised and expanded compilation from previously published regional volumes that appeared between May and October 1945, the list includes approximately 85,000 names of Holocaust survivors in displaced persons camps. Entries include maiden names (where applicable), birthplace, birth year, and then-current..... Read More about Shārit Ha-Plātah. (Volume I - Revised). An extensive list of survivors of Nazi tyranny...
Price: $4,500
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. First edition, first printing with A-P below the editions statement. Rare Variant Issue Jacket. A landmark work in African American fiction, which became the first Book of the Month Club selection by an African-American writer, selling 250,000 copies in its first three weeks on..... Read More about Native Son
Price: $3,500
Manchester, N.H: J.H. Cate, Printer, 1843. First edition. "A worthy successor to two earlier New England practitioners of roguery, Stephen Burroughs and Henry Tufts" (Howes). "Wyman was an audacious and incorrigible thief and swindler, but his prominence was more literary than criminal" (DNB). Read More about The Life and Adventures of Seth Wyman, embodying the Principal Events of a Life Spent in Robbert,...
Price: $1,250